Both worrying and true, and with no easy corrective: "we are a deeply isolated and lonely and distrustful country that is focused on material wellbeing and status and is more dislocated and civically apathetic than maybe we’ve ever been."
On most things I agree with you. But in this case, asking for a more community-responsive, participatory design is sort of the opposite of denying people homes. "The letter called for a...survey of local workers that would include questions on housing design, rent levels and commute patterns."
Anecdotally, many on the right still see themselves as "Reagan conservatives" and aren't able to acknowledge that their actual belief system (or at least their in-group) is far right authoritarian. This cognitive dissonance shared by millions of Americans feeds the growth of the far right.
Media?
A typo could explain the day number being wrong. But he died on Saturday, so someone had to intentionally type Friday here.
What if: a quaint English townscape but instead of people, cars?
The project I worked on was kicked back to us for not having ENOUGH colors and textures and bump outs. Their comment was "break up the facade, more breaks in the massing."
It's really planning and architectural review boards, I think. I briefly worked for an architect who churned this stuff out. For him it was a game: he knew what the ARB wanted. He just plugged Hardie products and colors in. Push/pulled the massing. Added the minimum number of windows and was done.
This stuff is so ubiquitous and being pushed by planning departments in every US city: the venn diagram result of all architectural review board comments. No architects actually want it, not even the ones who drew this thing. It's just an algorithm they plug hardieplank into.
This seems relevant. Fourth largest city in the US, big blue island in a purple state: www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
Isn't social pressure a huge component of the affiliative motive? You want your group to accept you, so you publicly endorse the group's claims (even if you don't intrinsically believe them) or risk ostracization. This seems a bit different from loyalty—fear motivated rather than bond motivated.
I hate to tell you what comes next:
Toothpick episode ("Needle in a Haystack") has freaked me out ever since.
In fact, the hardest and least pleasant step for many creative people is publicizing their own work—pushing the end product out the door and into the light.
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
Some of his late essays/lectures before he died are very good and clarifying as well. "Artificial Stupidity," "The Initial Trauma of Exosomatization,"....
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: A Christmas Musical.
Weird that EVERY amendment passed, even when they were at cross-purposes. Amendment free for all.
None of the articles I've read indicate what those "ideological differences" are. His bio seems solid and basically apolitical.
The new earnestness: tasteful cringe, hygge hopepunk.
I think the issue is: how much damage are Mills and Platner willing to do to each other in the eight months before the General?
Because as you know, most effective role for paid consultants is in destroying others' credibility in bad faith, not in building their own candidate up.
I think the bigger point is that 98% of these encounters are entirely avoidable, and “fafo” guys end up inviting a lot of chaos, pain, and inexplicable hostility into their lives by constantly being primed for a fight that never has to happen.
It's also possible, I think, to create many Gemeinschafts within Gesellschaft. Communities of practice, subcultures, neo-tribes. But it doesn't work the other way.
Especially important at a moment when the veil of ignorance seems to have been shredded, in favor of a situation where all political rules are designed to favor one’s own position.
An umbrella under an umbrella. Canada needs its own, smaller one to protect against the big umbrella.
It's weird that the loudspeakers seem engineered specifically to be undecipherable—and yet are still constantly blaring.
I think it's because many of them find the medium itself uncouth, beneath them, low culture. They're not necessarily wrong, but that's now where public discourse happens.
The Boss SD-1 is a far better pedal using a similar circuit.
Incidentally, I find that anthropology is an interesting place to look for this kind of thing. Anthropologists contemporize and spatialize history in a way that historians sometimes don't.
Gunel, Appadurai, Clifford, Hannerz, Auge, and many others....
But these are pretty straightforward. You might look at
History of the Barricade, by Hazan
Autonomous City, history of squatting, by Vasudevan